Author: Dave C.
Date: 13:11:35 06/30/99
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On June 30, 1999 at 13:47:52, Alan Grotier wrote:
>In 1984 I purchased the Mephisto Mondial XL rated at around 1970 Fide.
>It has a Motorola 68000 16bit processor at 12MZ and one of the best pressure
>sensitive boards I have seen.The features are rather limited - one playing
>style, no tournament time controls, fixed selective search etc.
>The play is rather quiet and positional.It does have tactical ability but
>will not go out of it's way to provoke tactical situations and can be prone to
>sacrifices on the King side.But it does have agood end game.
>Dispite it's age I find it very strong and cannot boast many wins at my favorite
>level game/30".
>
>In 1993 I purchased the Mephisto Vancouver with the exclusive wooden board
>(Mephisto Genius1 was based on this program)rated at around 2100 Fide.
>It has the same processor as the Mondial XL.It is pure luxury to play and
>abounds with features and playing levels.Selectivity can be varied from
>0 to 12, it has three playing styles-solid,active and risky and a choice
>of six different opening books.
>I have not been able to win one game against it.
I suppose most of us in the CCC have a similar history, and this info would be
interesting for many of us to read. I started buying chess machines in the late
70's, Boris 2.5, Chess Challenger ("your computer opponent, select your level"),
then Fidelity's Elite A/S Challenger and most recently an Excalibur Mirage. Mix
in a few inexpensive portable units to complete the picture for dedicated chess
machines. I've only recently become interested in using my computer (PII, 350,
96 MEGs) for chess, when I purchased CM6000. I may add Fritz or Shredder to the
collection.
However, I only occasionally win a game against any of these computer chess
opponents and then only on their lowest/handicap level... It is hard to
understand what motivates this ongoing, expensive drive to be beaten
relentlessly by these programs.
Any of you have similar thoughts, or more importantly have you figured out what
it this strange drive is?
Thanks for listening,
Dave
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